Ingersoll Lockwood quotes

Remember, little baron, the motto of the Trumps, Per Ardua ad Astra—the pathway to glory is strewn with pitfalls and dangers—but the comforting thought shall ever be mine, that when thy keen intelligence fails, Bulger’s unerring instinct will be there to guide thee.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter I

According to the learned Don Fum’s manuscript, the portals to the World within a World were situated somewhere in Northern Russia, possibly, so he thought, from all indications, somewhere on the westerly slope of the upper Urals.

“The people will tell thee.”

— Spoken by a character · Chapter II

He implores thee to break away from this life of revery and inaction, and for the honor of the Trumps to be up and away again.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter I

“Yes, I understand thee now, faithful companion; and I promise thee that before this moon has filled her horns we shall once more turn our backs on Castle Trump, up and away in search of the portals to Don Fum’s World within a World.”

— Spoken by a character · Chapter I

There had been many Trumps, but never one that had thrown up his arms and cried, “I surrender!” and should I be the first to do it? “Never! Not even if it meant never to see dear old Castle Trump again!”

Know, then, thou seest before thee the world-renowned traveller, Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Troomp, commonly called ‘Little Baron Trump,’ that though short of stature and frail of limb, yet what there is of me is of iron.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter IV

Dear friends, man has always been too distrustful of his four-footed companions. They have much that they might tell us had they but speech to tell it with.

Rise, little baron,” said Queen Galaxa, as I dropped upon my right knee on the lowest step of the throne, “and be welcome to our kingdom.

— Queen Galaxa · Chapter IX

a wrong confessed is half redressed.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter XIII